About Us
Who we are
Insight Associates is a firm of Company Finance Managers specialising in the provision of proactive commercial hands-on financial management to businesses. Typically working in situations involving financial distress as a result of rapid growth or potential failure, or high growth early stage situations needing a firm foundation for the future.
Founded in 1992 the firm has extensive experience of building and managing the financial controls, systems and processes needed in any business, as well as managing companies through extensive corporate turnaround situations.
Insight Associates is affiliated with KSA, a leading national firm of Turnaround Practitioners, which enables the practice to offer a full corporate renewal and restructuring service, and is an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Practice.
We firmly believe that every business needs a Finance Director, and good strong financial management and controls if it is to survive, and aim to provide a ready solution to achieve this.
We differ from conventional firms of accountants in that we are all industry experienced professionals, who have significant first hand experience of working in and managing smaller businesses. We are not auditors, tax specialists or technical wizards. We are practical hands-on specialists who take a shirt-sleeves approach to getting the job done.
Director
Garry Mumford FCCA
Garry is a highly experienced finance manager/director. Having held a number of senior financial roles in various organisations, including Finance Directorships in independent and family owned businesses, Garry was one of the founding partners of Insight Associates in 1992.
He has significant experience in change management, turnarounds, systems development and implementation, and company acquisitions and disposals, as well as being a skilled facilitator in strategic planning and development situations. Garry is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), member of the Institute of Directors, and a director of the Turnaround Management Association in the UK.
Garry is supported by a skilled and committed team based at their offices in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, near London’s Stansted Airport.
Our Clients
We usually work with independent businesses with a turnover between £1m and £15m, and also have experience of providing interim management resource into larger concerns.
These businesses have often grown without any direct financial management skills being available to them, and as a result find that they are in need of strong internal controls and regular and reliable management information. These weaknesses are generally a contributory factor to the financial difficulties businesses often face at the time we are introduced into the situation.
Recent studies suggest that many business owners are unaware of the value of improving financial management within their enterprises. Many lack regular, reliable and relevant financial and other business information.
Our aim is to work with clients to turn the business around, and develop it into a financially strong and long term viable concern.
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